Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1887-02-23

On Friday last, Samuel Hart was
thrown from the top of an ice covered
box car, near Hale, on the d., b. G. d
A. r. r. His head was fractured,
several ribs broke and he also received
other injuries.
As regards weather, Washington's
birthday, yesterday, was the finest OF
the winter-mild. pleasant and sunny,
and combined with snow, sleighing
and toboggan, made it a day well
worthy of repeating.
A very pleasant reception was given
at the residence of j. d. Potter, last
Friday afternoon and evening, by
Mrs. j. d. Potter, Mrs. j. G. Comfort
and Mrs. B. r. Young. A large
number of invited guests were pres
ent.
The Legion of Select Knights, A. O.
u. w. was not organized at the ses-
sion of the lodge last Thursday night,
on account of the sickness of Master
Workman. Chas. Golling. The Lee
gion will probably be organized this
week.
Ed Raile, after getting bullet. in
his head, and causing some other per-
sons considerable trouble, has got in
to trouble himself, and been arrested
for obtaining goods under false pre-
tense. The ways of the transgressors
are not always smooth.
John McCallum had the misfortune
to have two of his fingers smashed
while coupling the log cars near the
Comstock mill, last Thursday. The
fingers got in between the back end
of the bumper and the car. This is
the first railway accident in this city.
The pupils of F, Lewis, teacher
of the art of fstic self-defense, gave
a lively exhibition at the athletic
rooms in the Minton block, Friday
night. The program consisted of
sparring, wrestling, etc., and conclud-
ed with four round slugging match.
A bill to Incorporate Sanborn, in
this county, has been introduced in
the State Legislature, by Senator
Harshaw. 1t refers, we believe, to
what is now known as Ossineke, which
has recently been plated by Mr..
Sanborn and laid out in lots, and will
be named Sanborn.
Daniel T. Carr died last Sunday.
The funeral took place yesterday, and
the remains were escorted to the grave
by Lockwood Post, G. A. r., of which
the deceased was a member. He had
served with 9Th Michigan cavalry
during the rebellion, being member
of company L. He was aged 49,.
The new township of Sanborn, Or
ganized by the Board of Supervisors
on Feb 18th, 1887, consists of town
20, in ranges 8 and 8 east. The first
election is to be held in the school
house, in the village of Ossineke,
April 4th, and James l.. Sanborn,
Fry III. Toland and Louis Derosie, ST.,
are to be the inspectors of election.
The demand for the sulphite paper
pulp, manufactured at the factory in
this city, is so great that sale has
been made of the refuse pulp, and
last Thursday many tons of it were
shipped by/rail. The refuse pulp
brings two and half cents per pound.
The best grade pulp is worth between
five and six cents per pound.
A record in the log hauling business
was made at the log camp of T. Sher-
idan, in the Hubbard Lake region,
last week. The length of haul from
the sideways to the landing is report
ed at four miles. Ten teams were
employed, and the first day 100000
feet of logs were hauled to the land
ing. The next day ILL., 900 feet of
logs were hauled. The logs hauled
were small.
it had been the intention to do
great weeks business on the log rail
way of Fletcher, Pack & Co., at Hub
bard Lake, last week. Over 200,00
feet of logs were hauled Monday, 240,-
900 the next day and over two hundred
thousand feet per day on Wednesday
and Thursday. On Friday the heavy
fall of snow placed veto on the work,
and the whole of Friday was used in
ploughing the snow from the road.
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Outside parties are organizing
joint stock company to build railroad
between Alpena and Petosky. Alpe-
ma capitalists have been written to in
regard to attending a meeting at De-
troit, to make the necessary arrange